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The LPO told NCIS that Gallagher later approached him and said hed killed four women today," alleged war crimes the SO1 said he repeated to Portier and another lieutenant. But Gallagher faces a long line of SEALs prepared to provide damning testimony under oath against him. His fellow SEALs told Naval Criminal Investigative Services following the deployment that Gallagher had shot a young girl while on sniper duty, fired at civilians on other occasions and stabbed a wounded ISIS fighter then posed with the corpse for a photograph. These were part of Gallaghers effort to get a SEAL injured or killed so that we would, in his words, make it a great deployment. In the end, Gallagher showed us he wasnt our brother. 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He also told NCIS that Gallagher had shot at but missed another young girl in a previous incident. Several of them said that they saw him stab this alleged captive ISIS prisoner. Special Operator 1st Class Josh Vriens is a former Navy SEAL sniper who served in Alpha Platoon under Eddie Gallaghers command. After two weeks of testimony, Chief Edward Gallagher was found not guilty of murdering a suspected ISIS prisoner in Iraq. Others closer to planning operations inside the platoon expressed deeper concerns about Gallaghers tactical competence and what bait really meant. Directors Doug Shultz and Jeff Zimbalist secured the participation of Gallagher; his wife, Andrea; and the members of SEAL Team 7 who accused Gallagher of war crimes. They said that he went up in the sniper tower and shot at civilians. Gallagher openly discussed topics including his career, the raid upon his home, pre-trial confinement, legal proceedings, acquittal, retirement, and his life and family. Gallagher was accused of several war crimes by some of his platoon subordinates, including that he shot civilians and stabbed a wounded ISIS fighter in the neck, killing him, while in Iraq in 2017. The SEAL compound boasted a main headquarters building that overlooked the low ground below them and peered over an opposite hillside. One other Marine raider who was there also said that he saw no stab wounds on the dead body. How did the defense team robot that bit of evidence? From this clip, it doesnt appear that will be the case. He told us there was a process to report these crimes and he had already notified our troop commander, Lt. Cmdr. WebAnswer (1 of 13): I will admit out right that I havnt liked Eddie since he was my buddy Daves LPO. The accusations came from SEALs in Gallagher's own platoon, who said he was also known for taking shots at civilians from his sniper's nest, killing at least two. Some SEALs wanted to derail Gallaghers advancement to senior chief. [36] That charge carried a maximum prison sentence of four months. He came to national attention in the United States after he was charged in September 2018 with ten offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. (Photo by Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images). What seems clear is that the SO1 already had grown to fear his chief. If the prosecution is right, the chief likely will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Around noon, the SO1 said he panned north along the banks of the Tigris River, watching a path used by refugee families to escape Islamic State-controlled Mosul. Get the latest in military news, entertainment and gear in your inbox daily. The sniper whos now a civilian claimed he saw Gallagher shoot an elderly man in his 70s or 80s on Fathers Day, 18 June 2017, a shooting backed up by a first class petty officer now assigned to Naval Special Warfare Development Group often called DEVGRU or SEAL Team 6, according to NCIS records. Rangers. [54] Special Operator First Class Corey Scott, a platoon medic, had informed investigators, "You could tell he was perfectly O.K. That included Gallagher telling another platoon chief that the rest of the platoon were afraid to go out on patrol during the deployment and they were all cowards, according to the NCIS report about the SO1 snipers interview. [28] This potential pardon was hotly criticized in the Washington Post's opinion pages. Dillon called the arrest a "significant blow to Daesh," using the Arabic acronym for the extremist group. He insisted they all made the story up because THEY were afraid of Josh Vriens [9][1] This resulted in him being confined in the brig for a time with heavy restrictions on his ability to communicate, although this confinement was later lessened. One dude I was good friends with was so paranoid that he hadn't taken a single picture with his son. Another SEAL told investigators that he saw Gallagher shoot the elderly man in the back and watched him drop to the ground and saw blood on his back, but its unclear if hell testify. They have no body in this case, very little forensic evidence. The LPO told NCIS that he informed both Portier and his assistant officer in charge of the platoon about the alleged murder. And then, all of a sudden, they hit a nerve, said Timothy Parlatore, Gallaghers lead civilian counsel. On September 11, 2018, Gallagher was arrested at Camp Pendleton and charged with premeditated murder, attempted murder, obstruction of justice, and other offenses. Gallagher was accused of multiple offenses during his final deployment to Iraq and during the Battle for Mosul. The problem is, once they get what they wanted, the process doesnt stop. It escalates and Warpinski is now on the case.". Two of the other girls ran away and over a berm out of sight. After the platoon rotated home to Naval Base Coronado on Sept. 1, 2017, Gallagher called a meeting in their high bay to confront his fellow SEALs about any problems they had with him, according to several NCIS reports. [9], A charge of obstruction of justice was brought against Gallagher for alleged witness intimidation. Another sniper who also has indicated he might not testify later told prosecutors that he saw an old man go down, but he didnt see Gallagher shoot him, according to emails to prosecutors provided to Navy Times. This is from a large project that will surely shock the military world. SEAL Team 1, SEAL Team 3, SEAL Team 5. And when our EOD technician was shot on a rooftop, it was Medic Corey Scott who immediately treated him and formulated a plan to get him off the roof as Lt. Tom MacNeil called in a medical evacuation in defiance of Lt. Jake Portier, our platoon leader, who ordered him not to do so because we were in a restricted area. Eddie was definitely a pirate.. I doubt Eddie Gallagher is thumbing away on his computer and coming up with these graphics and effects himself. [9] Khaled Jamal Abdullah, a captured 17-year-old fighter of the Islamic State, was being treated by a medic. But, the good comes with the bad. Would we do something different if we could go back in time? Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward Eddie Gallagher in Iraq in 2017. But piecing together all the interviews in mid-2018 and a round of re-interviews in October of the SEALs reveals multiple, sometimes competing, reasons for bringing Gallaghers alleged actions to the attention of his superiors and, later, law enforcement. He made the tactical decisions and we carried them out. From other NCIS and Iraqi records provided to Navy Times, it can be pinpointed to May 3, 2017 less than a month after Alpha Platoon began their tour and the ICFM were members of the Iraqi Emergency Response Division, the Ministry of the Interiors elite special forces unit. 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Gallaghers SEAL Team 7 superiors in California junked the Silver Star application and he wasnt going to make senior chief before his planned retirement after 20 years of service. During Alpha Platoons deployment, the SO1 had served as the lead petty officer, or LPO, and his initial statement to NCIS took the agent back to Badush a village in the suburbs of Mosul in early May of 2017, when the platoon was conducting an Advise, Assist and Accompany, or AAA, mission with Iraqi coalition forces members. Nearly 50 minutes into his videotaped interview with NCIS, the SO1 sniper conceded that the SEALs had received intel reports that women were supplying weapons, water and food to Islamic State fighters, but he insisted he saw nothing like that through his scope. [54], At the end of November 2019, Gallagher retired from the Navy with full honors, pension, and medical benefits. One aspect of this video that I find really interesting is that it's obviously from a larger-scale project. [58], In 2021, Gallagher said on the podcast The Line, although he did not stab the ISIS fighter, "[the ISIS fighter] was killed by us, and that nobody at that time, had a problem with it", and the group performed medical procedures on the prisoner which killed him (including inserting an emergency airway into the ISIS fighter's throat, "just for practice"). All appear on camera. (AP Photo, File). Associates said Spencer would resign if such an order is issued, believing it undercuts his authority and that of Rear Adm. Collin Green, commander of the SEALs. He was interviewed in 2020 by former Navy SEAL and current K9 trainer Mike Ritland on YouTube. "The guy was toxic," said SO1 Joshua Vriens. But he said Portier wanted to hold off reporting the incident until he determined Iraqi security forces hadnt shot the girl. Parlatore said that information in the video about the SEALs was already known. Jason Hull). The other SEAL sniper whos now a civilian told investigators that he estimated the girl to be a 12-year-old, according to another document provided to Navy Times. He was slated to be awarded a Silver Star during that fateful deployment in Mosul when the It was Gallagher a Navy corpsman assigned to Marines before he became a SEAL who began treating the wounded Iraqi, which the SO1 assumed was a shrapnel wound. On April 10, 2018, his superiors had referred the case to federal agents as a LOAC a Law of Armed Conflict Violation, or war crime. After President Trump brought the issue up at a meeting with Chief of Naval Operations John M. Richardson, Admiral Richardson took up the request personally. Text messages and other digital conversations involving Gallagher can appear damning at times, but theyve been described by the chiefs supporters as dark humor, the talk of rough men who have experienced a great deal of combat, maybe the voice of an exasperated SEAL who believes hes being railroaded by accusers and superiors. By early 2019, however, the prosecution had settled on a narrative about what began going wrong in Iraq two years earlier, according to legal filings and internal correspondence provided to Navy Times. A proffer request from one of the two assistant officers in charge of the platoon indicates hes prepared to tell prosecutors that Gallagher called in false target coordinates to engage a mosque," tried to push his platoon into pointless and potentially catastrophic firefights with insurgents and became so mentally unstable that he shouldve been relieved from duty, but wasnt. It appears as though a revenge tour is just getting started and that's a really sobering thought. [17] For the most serious charge of murder of a prisoner, according to the defense, Gallagher stabbed a corpse and embellished a story out of misplaced bravado; the prisoner had already died of his wounds. And while press reports suggested Scott could conceivably be charged with perjury, the Navy dropped their investigation into his statements shortly after Gallagher's acquittal. They yanked an injured boy the SEAL estimated he was 16 years old, but others thought him younger off the hood, near where Gallagher was standing. Todd is a Marine veteran of the Iraq War. Spencer responded that terminating this probe could only be done via an official written order from the White House. Many people have asked why we didnt report these crimes as soon as they happened and instead waited months to report them. These werent SEAL tactics. His actions are everything ISIS says we are. New York Times reporter Dave Philipps joins Deadline White House panel to discuss the Navy SEALs' testimony against Eddie Gallagher. You've seen the picture featuring operators with black bars over their eyes and faces. In a three-minute video posted to hisFacebook pageandInstagram accountMonday, retired Chief Special Operator Edward Gallagher, 40, referred to some members of his former platoon as cowards and highlighted names, photos and for those still on active duty their duty status and current units, something former SEALs say places those men and the Navys mission in jeopardy. Assuming that the witnesses even show up at least three of them have threatened to assert their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and refuse to testify, according to emails provided to Navy Times.

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